The Pride of the Yankees
by Sam Wood
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Actor: Babe Ruth, Dan Duryea, Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Walter BrennanDirector: Sam Wood
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
Writer: Casey Robinson
Writer: Damon Runyon
Writer: Herman J. Mankiewicz
Writer: Jo Swerling
Writer: Paul Gallico
Writer: Vincent Lawrence
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 128 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-04-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of The Pride of the Yankees
DVD Review: The Pride of the Yankees
Summary: 5 Stars
The Pride of the Yankees is an old classic which has not lost anything through the years. I would recommend it to anyone and not just a baseball fan!DVD Review: I grew up on this.
Summary: 5 Stars
First introduction to the Iron Horse, it is a must have for any sports fanDVD Review: Touching, Tear-Jerking Story
Summary: 5 Stars
I have loved this movie since I was a child and it still packs a wallop. Gary Cooper stars in his greatest role as Lou Gehrig, a famous baseball player of the 20s. The movie covers his rise to baseball greatness from an immigrant household with a loving but domineering mother to his marriage to his illness. The disease is now called Lou Gehrig's disease and is a nervous disorder which destroys the muscles. The ending is Lou's great speech retiring from the Yankees. Teresa Wright stars has his wife and the other actors are perfect. A well made film with few if any flaws. One of the greats, a classic. DVD Review: Review
Summary: 4 Stars
I paid the expedited shipping and in fact received it promptly, however Powell's Books sent me an email stating it was being mailed out (two days later) with expected receive date days later. Fortunately that was not the case & product arrived that day!DVD Review: A Great Player and Genuinely-Nice Man
Summary: 4 Stars
A lot of non-baseball fans like this movie a lot, and that's probably because it's more about a nice guy than it is about a ballplayer. New York Yankee great Lou Gehrig is the subject. Gehrig was often in the shadow of the great Babe Ruth, but was tremendous player in his own right and a far better human being.
It's tough to find many nicer movies than this one: a totally inoffensive, sentimental and old- fashioned film about a super-nice guy, played by a popular actor: Gary Cooper. Except for one sportswriter, there were no villains or nasty people in this movie.
Teresa Wright plays "Eleanor Twitchell," who becomes Gehrig's wife and Walter Brennan plays sportswriter and friend, "Sam Blake." The real Babe Ruth played himself, which was nice to see. Speaking of seeing, this DVD edition gives you the option of black-and-white or color. Both look good.
Overall, this was a feel-good movie of the highest sort. This was so nice a story that even the cynical national critics dared not criticize it. It leaves you with tears in your eyes at the end.
Description of The Pride of the Yankees
His talent made him a legend. His courage made him a hero. Gary Cooper is nothing short of wonderful (The Motion Picture Guide) in this moving true story of Lou Gehrig, the Hall-of-Fame ballplayer who reached the heights of stardom only to face tragedy with a dignity that inspired a nation. Nominated* for eleven Academy Awards(r), including Best Picture, The Pride of the Yankees is a glorious [and] inspiring (The Hollywood Reporter) sports classic. LouGehrig's boyhood dreams come true when he signs on with the New York Yankees and takes the field alongside his idol, Babe Ruth. In fact, Lou considers himself 'the luckiest man in the world until unthinkable misfortune strikes, and he must summon all his courage to face his toughest battle yet.When people say, "They don't make them like they used to," Pride of the Yankees is just the kind of film they're wistfully remembering. Nominated for 11 Academy awards (winning one for film editing), this handsome biographical drama of baseball legend Lou Gehrig is one of the most finely crafted films ever to emerge from Hollywood. Gary Cooper, that great oak of an American actor, progresses from the awkward and naively shy rookie to the seasoned "Iron Horse" first baseman of the New York Yankees without losing his idealism or modesty. Teresa Wright captures the same slice of Americana with her mixture of girl-next-door sweetness and urban sophistication as his supportive wife, Eleanor. After he's diagnosed with a degenerative neurological disease (known today simply as Lou Gehrig's disease), Cooper delivers Gehrig's famous retirement speech from the mound of Yankee Stadium with the courage and spirit of a winner: "I consider myself to be the luckiest man on the face of the earth." One of the finest sports films ever made, Pride is about more than simply baseball: Gehrig, the hard-working, uncommonly talented son of immigrant parents, is the living embodiment of the American Dream. Walter Brennan and Dan Duryea costar as a Greek chorus of sportswriters, and real-life Yankees Bill Dickey, Mark Koenig, Bob Meusel, and Babe Ruth appear as themselves. --Sean Axmaker
You'll be proud to introduce your kids to this film about virtue, courage, and an indomitable spirit. Like Treasure Island and Tom Sawyer, Pride should be required viewing for every family. Gary Cooper plays Lou Gehrig, the "Iron Horse" New York Yankee first baseman who became a record-setting legend in baseball. Sure, Cooper's a little long in the tooth to play a collegian, and he tries to capture Gehrig's innocence with a kind of eye-batting dopiness. But the last moments of the film, before Gehrig's final, famous farewell, transform the picture. Gehrig happens across a young man whom he had encountered years before in a children's hospital, and with this sequence, Pride becomes something more than a movie about innate talent and athleticism, or a lost era of America, it crystallizes into a film about (gulp!) human will. An absolute must. --Keith Simanton
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